Manuscripts

Blackmar, Frank Wilson. To Anthony, Susan B. University of Kansas

Description: On reverse: Anthony, Mary S. to Susan B. Anthony, 1895 June 17.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1895 June 11
Call number: AF 29
Creator: Anthony, Susan B (1820-1906)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gifts of Susan B. Anthony Memorial Committee of California, 1944-1953. This collection forms part of the Susan B. Anthony Memorial collections, which were started by a group of California women who collected all types of material about the life and work of Susan B. Anthony. This group, the Susan B. Anthony Memorial Committee of California, was headed by Una Richardson Winter, Director, and Alice L. Park, Associate Director. They donated the manuscript and printed materials now known as the Susan B. Anthony Memorial collections to the Huntington Library between 1945-1956.

Anthony, Susan B. To Anthony, Joseph. Rochester, N.Y

Manuscripts

The collection contains primarily letters and some manuscripts concerning Anthony family affairs and woman suffrage activities. There are four large letterbooks of Joseph Anthony, three loose-leaf binders of typed copies of Susan B. Anthony letters in other libraries, and an autograph speech of Susan B. Anthony. Other subjects included in the collection are the Battle of Osawatamie and ideas and discussion about populism, racism, and religion. Anthony Family members represented in the collection include Jessie Anthony, Joseph Anthony, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy E. Anthony, Katherine Boyles, Maude Anthony Koehler, and Frank Anthony Mosher. Significant figures related to the history of woman suffrage represented in the collection include Susan B. Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Stone Blackwell, and Carrie Chapman Catt. There are also some letters to and about the artist Lorado Taft and one letter by Frederick Douglass.

AF 17

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